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homemaker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From home + maker.

Meanings

1. (Australia, US) A person who maintains the administration and upkeep of his or her residence, especially one who is not employed outside the home; one who runs the household.
   • Forty-seven-year-old homemaker and volunteer museum guide, holder of a master's degree in English, married twenty-three years to a professor. 1979, Lillian B. Rubin, Women of a Certain Age: The Midlife Search for Self, page 233:

Forms

Deriveds

displaced homemaker · nonhomemaker

Relateds

farmwife · housespouse · housewife · homemaking · househusband

Translations (14)

it casalingo (person who maintains his or her residence) · fr homme au foyer (person who maintains his or her residence) · fr femme au foyer (person who maintains his or her residence) · de Hausmann (person who maintains his or her residence) · it casalinga (person who maintains his or her residence) · es ama de casa (person who maintains his or her residence) · hi गृहिणी (person who maintains his or her residence) · ar رَبّ بَيْت (person who maintains his or her residence) · de Hausfrau (person who maintains his or her residence) · ar رَبّة بَيْت (person who maintains his or her residence) · es amo de casa (person who maintains his or her residence) · hu háztartásbeli (person who maintains his or her residence) · sv hemmaman (person who maintains his or her residence) · sv hemmafru (person who maintains his or her residence)